Ellul’s comment is true in an era like ours where the state captures and stores our data and records in massive databases. But this was a comment before the internet, and social media where we store things ourselves and often emails and posts which we would rather people forgot.

Bloggers’ right are under threat across the world it seems. I’m pleased to re-engage with EFF and see that they are raising the issues and defending (and defining through cases) the law around blogging.